"From the standpoint of innate ability, bravery, chivalry, purity of character and unselfish
patriotism, the sons and daughters of Carolina are the equals of any on the American Continent
and today represent the finest type of American citizen; yet it is difficult to try and tell the story
of this people of mixed races, several religions, various customs and the modifications of these various
differentations by climate, occupation, wars and the physical conformation of the land on the face of
which they lived, and moved, and had their being.
"It is an interesting peep into the past to envisage the homes in which these pioneer peoples and
their descendants dwelt. These homes were the expression of their individualities modified by their
occupations and means. The social, political and economic significance of these empire builders
stands revealed in the homes they builded as well as the taste that prompted the style.
"Means were found for overcoming distances, securing material, and workmen were either developed
or imported to carry out the design of the desired habitation, while the landscape gardeners were
employed to decorate and embellish the neighboring grounds. All of these factors enter into the
kind of house and the type of architecture found in lowland and highland of South Carolina."
CONTENTS - HISTORIC HOUSES
NOTES FROM SOUTH CAROLINA ALMANAC 1765 xvi
I. OLD CHARLESTON AND SOUTH CAROLINA 1
II. ON COOPER RIVER FROM CHARLESTON TO THE "TEE".. 12
III. WESTERN BRANCH OF COOPER RIVER ABOVE THE "TEE" 36
IV. EASTERN BRANCH OF COOPER RIVER ABOVE THE "TEE" 74
V. 8ANTEE, FRENCH SANTEE, SOUTH SANTEE, NORTH SANTEE 91
VI. GEORGETOWN AND VICINITY 112
VII. UPPER, LOWER AND MIDDLE ST. JOHN'S AND ST. STEPHEN'S 135
VIII. ST. MARK'S PARISH 168
IX. FROM DOVER TO CALAIS VIA THE PARISHES OF CHRIST
CHURCH AND ST. THOMAS 178
X. ON THE ASHLEY RIVER AND IN ST. ANDREW'S PARISH... 188
XI. JOHN'S ISLAND AND EDISTO ISLAND. THE PLACES AND
THE PEOPLE 208
XII. BEAUFORT. INCLUDING COMBAHEE AND CHEE-HA DIS-
TRICTS. WITH TWO PICTURES OF WILLTOWN HOUSES
AND ONE AT BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA 233
XIII. ON THE ROAD TO COLUMBIA AND COLUMBIA AND ITS
HOMES 250
XIV. THE OLD CHERAWS, LAURENS, LANCASTER AND NEW-
BERRY 268
XV. JOSEPH McCULLOUGH HOUSE, FORT HILL, LOWTHER HALL,
TOMASSEE AND THE BURT HOUSE IN ABBEVILLE.... 289
ADDITIONAL HOUSES OF HISTORIC INTEREST IN SOUTH
CAROLINA 304
CONTENTS - CHARLESTON DWELLING HOUSES
CHARLESTON AND ITS STORY 17
I. THE EARLIEST BUILDINGS AND THE FREQUENT FIRES 29
II. BREWTON'S CORNER AND THE OLD HOUSES THERE... 41
III. VANDERHORST CREEK, WHITE POINT, AND "CHURCH
STREET CONTINUED" 55
IV. A GROUP OF OLD HOUSES ON MEETING STREET 75
V. THE HOUSES BUILT BY MILES BREWTON, ROBERT
PRINGLE AND WILLIAM BRANFORD 91
VI. EXAMPLES OF ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT FOL-
LOWING THE REVOLUTION 189
VII. THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF GRANVILLE'S BASTION 157
VIII. THE FORTIFICATIONS ON WHITE POINT, AND THE DE-
VELOPMENT OF EAST AND SOUTH BATTERIES 171
IX. SOUTH BATTERY AND LOWER MEETING STREET 185
X. SOUTH BAY, LEGARE AND TRADD STREETS 205
XI. TRADD, ORANGE AND BROAD STREETS 235
XII. FROM THE CITY HALL TO THE OLD EXCHANGE, COLLE-
TON SQUARE, AND RHETTSBURY 257
XIII. ANSONBOROUGH, LAURENS SQUARE, AND GENERAL
GADSDEN'S LAND 279
XIV. MAZYCKBORO, WRAGGBORO, THE CITADEL, THE
ORPHAN HOUSE, AND THE FREE SCHOOL LAND 295
XV. THE GI.EBE OF ST. PHILIP'S AND THE VILLAGE OF
CHARLESTON 309
XVI. BUILDING MATERIALS 337
XVII. THE BUILDING OF CHARLES PINCKNEY'S HOUSE IN
COLLETON SQUARE 359